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Man Quotes
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
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"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
Man,
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"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
67
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
66
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
Man,
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"It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin."
63
"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."
62
"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
61
"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
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"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
59
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
58
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
57
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
57
"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
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"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
56
"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
56
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
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"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
56
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
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"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
55
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
54
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
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"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
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"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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